Rapid decrease in deer trail cam numbers
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 115

ok the second week i put out my trail camera i had 34 does come in one week..and now two weeks later i had 4 deer come...they are over a gravity corn feeder in a 2 acre plot with planted corn that is now ready but wasnt when we had 34 does come...what is happening
#5

Deer at this time of year still have a variety of foods to choose from. The closer to Fall we get, their preferred food supply diminishes and their options smaller and that corn will start looking more appetizing then.
Just give it time. Keep us informed later on about those deer numbers.
iSnipe
Just give it time. Keep us informed later on about those deer numbers.
iSnipe
#7

Could be that you checked the cam too soon and spooked the deer. I have had that problem in the past, where I get something like 15 bucks on cam one week, 5 the next and 1 or 2 the third. That was a few years ago and I attributed it to checking them too often. Try to check your cams only about twice a month.
#8
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 115

this is what the field looks like sitting in the stand looking forward...30 yrds of planted pines behind us then a paved road.to the left there are planted pines which is where the deer come out from...in very back there is roughly 100 yards of clear hardwoods with a creek... the feeder is in the back left where there is a road that we built with the bulldozer...